Kinshasa, sentence 111
From Wikipedia, «Kinshasa», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
AFDL and RPA forces carried out extrajudicial killings, acts of torture, rape, and targeted former regime officials as well as members of the elite Special Presidential Division (DSP).
Who acts: AFDL forces, torture · What happens: carry out, target, act · To what, where: extrajudicial killings
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kinshasa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (AFDL forces, torture), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AFDL | AFDL | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 forces | compound |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 RPA | cc |
| 3 | RPA | RPA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 AFDL | conj |
| 4 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carried | nsubj |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 carried | compound:prt |
| 7 | extrajudicial | extrajudicial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 killings | amod |
| 8 | killings | killing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 acts | punct |
| 10 | acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 killings | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 torture | case |
| 12 | torture | torture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 acts | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rape | punct |
| 14 | rape | rape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 torture | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 targeted | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 targeted | cc |
| 17 | targeted | target | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 carried | conj |
| 18 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 officials | amod |
| 19 | regime | regime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 officials | compound |
| 20 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 targeted | obl:agent |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 24 members | cc |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 as | fixed |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 as | fixed |
| 24 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 targeted | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Division | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Division | det |
| 27 | elite | elite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Division | amod |
| 28 | Special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Division | amod |
| 29 | Presidential | presidential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Division | amod |
| 30 | Division | division | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 members | nmod |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 DSP | punct |
| 32 | DSP | DSP | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Division | appos |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 DSP | punct |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry out | past | AFDL forces | extrajudicial killings and acts of torture and rape | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent killing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | target | participle | AFDL forces not said here | former regime officials obl:agent; members of the elite Special Presidential Division conj | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | act | torture and rape | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
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